The order, which refers to the killer under his preferred name of Ian Stewart-Brady, prevents the media from releasing details of his funeral until a week after it has taken place – at which point an announcement will be made.

The hearing was held in public at the Chancery Division of the High Court, in front of Sir Geoffrey Vos.

Any breach of the order could result in a prison sentence for contempt of court.

Ian Brady, right, is escorted as he arrives at the courthouse in Hyde, Cheshire (Picture: AP)

Ian Brady posing with a gun and a dog (Picture: SWNS)

After Brady’s death at the maximum security Ashworth Hospital in May at the age of 79, coroner Christopher Sumner refused to release the killer’s body unless he was given assurance that his ashes wouldn’t be scattered on the Moors.

Relatives of some of Brady’s five young victims were horrified that this was even considered a possibility.

It sparked fears that Brady had included the disturbing wish in his will – which was described by Terry West, whose sister was murdered by Brady, as potentially the ‘final act of a twisted, evil man’.

Brady and his accomplice Myra Hindley murdered five children (Picture: PA)

Makin has consistently refused to reveal the killer’s funeral wishes, saying they would emerge ‘in due course’.

Brady and his accomplice Myra Hindley were jailed for life for torturing and murdering three children in the 1960s – John Kilbride, 12, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17.

They later admitted to the murders of Pauline Reade, 16, and Keith Bennett, 12.